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Diapente   Listen
noun
Diapente  n.  
1.
(Anc. Mus.) The interval of the fifth.
2.
(Med.) A composition of five ingredients.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Diapente" Quotes from Famous Books



... strange an action in dealing with so useful a work as a harmony of the Gospels, to confiscate it entirely and call it an evil design! To complete the value of this work as evidence to "four, and only four, Gospels," we are told by Victor of Capua, that it was also called Diapente, i.e., "by five" ("Sup. Rel.," vol. ii., p. 153). In fact, there is no possible reason for calling the work—whose contents ate utterly unknown—a harmony of the Gospels at all; the notion that it is a harmony is the ...
— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant



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